People v. Forte

The plaintiffs in error, Pasquale Forte and Anna Forte, were indicted with their mother, Pasqualina Forte, for the murder of Anthony Morasco on April 29, 1913, in the city of Chicago. Upon a trial in the criminal court of Cook county the jury found the defendant Pasquale Forte guilty of murder and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary fourteen years. The defendant Anna Forte was found guilty of manslaughter, and the jury fixed her punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary but found that she was within the ages of ten and twenty-one years and about the age of…